Caselberg Creative Connections Resident and InPrint Resident 2026 announcements
By Caselberg Trust | Posted: Monday Nov 17, 2025
Caselberg Trust Creative Connections resident 2026 – Ngaroma Riley
The Caselberg Trust announced today that its Creative Connections Resident 2026 will be Te Tuhi based artist and people connector Ngaroma Riley (Te Rarawa, Te Aupōuri, and Pākehā).
Ngaroma is a founder of Te Ana o Hine, a wahine-led carving shed based at Te Tuhi in Tāmaki Makaurau, She began her carving journey making Buddhist statues while working in Japan. Since returning to Aotearoa in 2020, she has completed a Certificate in Whakairo at Te Wānanga o Aotearoa. In 2022, she built a storehouse for a public installation in Kaitaia, and in 2025, she won the Molly Morpeth Canaday Major Award. She is known for her karetao (hand-carved puppets) and love of chainsaws.
Whilst on her 3-month Caselberg Trust Creative Connections residency between February and April 2026 Ngaroma will be researching whakapapa connections in Dunedin—particularly those relating to objects donated to the Otago Museum by her great-grandmother, Susan Graham, and to furniture carved by her great-grandaunt, Phoebe Graham. Ngaroma, who is also a carver, will hold soap-carving workshops during her residency.
Ngaroma says
“I am delighted to be offered the residency at the Caselberg House in Broad Bay. Is an opportunity that allows me to reconnect with Ōtepoti and Ōtākou—places that hold deep personal and ancestral significance for me. It feels like a homecoming.”
The 3-month long Caselberg Trust Creative Connections residency started in 2012 and is specifically targeted for projects that reach out and make links across a variety of creative media, and professional disciplines, and/or to communities relevant to the planned project. Recent Creative Connections Residents have been Bridget Reweti (2019), Lucy Marinkovich (2021), Sarah Hudson (2022), Alison Isadora (2023),, Katie Breckon (2024), and Jess Nicolson (2025).
The Caselberg Trust purchased the Broad Bay, Dunedin home of the late John and Anna Caselberg in 2006, with the aim of hosting creative residencies in the house. Since inception, the Trust has held a variety of creative projects and events, as well as hosting several well-known New Zealand writers and artists at the cottage.
Contact Ngaroma at email – ngaroma@me.com
Links to further information about Ngaroma and her work:
Fiona Van Oyen - InPrint resident 2026
During November Caselberg Trust will host Fiona Van Oyen as the InPrint resident for 2025.
Fiona began her printmaking journey at the University of Canterbury under the tutelage of Barry Cleavin, going on to work as a Medical Illustrator and teacher of Art and Printmaking within secondary schools for many years. In 2017 she completed a Master of Fine Arts, with distinction, at the Dunedin School of Art. Fiona has a family connection with the bay; her mother Ngaire Wallis, and three sisters, attended Broad Bay School for a time in their childhood. She currently lives in Ōtautahi Christchurch with her husband Hans and has two adult children.
Fiona’s printmaking practice focuses on the land and place. She enjoys working at exaggerated scale – large and small, using tropes to record the physical place while at the same time incorporating the metaphysical – the unseen or what lies beneath the surface.
Fiona is looking forward to her stay in the Caselberg House:
“I’m envisaging this residency, where so many creatives have been inspired to work, can do nothing but influence ways in which I choose to visually communicate my responses to this place and its effects on me”.
We look forward to welcoming her for this residency.
Caselberg Trust contact - Trustee Robert West at info@caselbergtrust.org for further information, or www.caselbergtrust.org.